While searching for a nice english translation I was surprised that there is an english book called the Christmas Mouse as well. Do you know it? is it worth reading?, tell me about it!
But before you do, please read the sweet translation of my favorite Christmas poetry:

The Christmas mouse is rare I hear.
The learned do agree.
For only once upon the year,
Its tracks we come to see.

Neither traps nor well spread bait
Will catch the clever mouse.
A skein of yarn, won’t suffocate,
Though spread throughout the house.

Throughout the year the mouse we say
Is friend to humankind.
But leaves its hole on Christmas day,
And puts us in a bind.

So it is from Christmas cake
Mother had stashed away,
The very best of all she’d baked
Was gone on Christmas day.

Then everyone proclaimed aloud
“I’m not the one who took it!
Last night, both sly and proud
“Twas the Christmas mouse who snook it.”

Another time the marzipan
From Peter disappeared.
Odd, surprising, without plan
It never reappeared.

Then Christian shouted out aloud
“I’m not the one who took it!
Last night, both sly and proud
‘Twas the Christmas mouse who snook it.”

A third time from the tree
Holding festive decorations
A meringue-Santa seemed to flee
With other delectations.

Then Nelly shouted out aloud
“I’m not the one who took it!
Last night, both sly and proud
‘Twas the Christmas mouse who snook it.”

Ernst and Hans and Dad all shouted
“A plague this holiday.”
“The evil mouse!” they pouted,
“And right on Christmas day!”

Only mother made no complaint.
And spoke out clear and true
“First the sweets have been displaced.
Now the mouse departed too.

When the sweets were eaten
And the tree laid bare
They looked about perplexed and beaten
The mouse just wasn’t there.

So let them say at Fränzchen’s house
And also at dear Liesl’s
There really is no Christmas mouse,
On that I doubt a little.

But I’m not one to author slights
Although you just might approve,
Whate’er one thinks of Christmas mice
Is just what might behoove.

ABOUT ME

My name is Diana and I am passionate about crocheting, knitting and pattern designing. I also craft, bake, cook and rant.If you find something that inspires you, please brighten my day by letting me know.And if you find an error in one of my patterns, send me a gentle nudge so that I can fix it.